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From a site TEd sent me, the etymology of "procrastinate" which I did not know before.
Crastin
The day after, especially after a feast-day or holiday. Used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via Old French,from Latin crastinum, tomorrow. Hence the rare verb crastinate, to put off till tomorrow, which never found favor in English. (Joseph Shipley's Dictionary of Early English 1955)
My motto is never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till next week.
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re:Used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via Old French,from Latin crastinum, tomorrow.
and i have heard in mythology, the crow is the future teller, since others heard its cry (i "hear" caw) as a latin word for tomorrow.. (craxxx?) does any one know the declinations? and which form of the word it might be?
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which form of the word it might be?
M-W is helpful, Helen:
Etymology: Latin procrastinatus, past participle of procrastinare, from pro- forward + crastinus of tomorrow, from cras tomorrow
So the crow's cry, as the Romans heard it, was "cras", or rather CRRAaas!
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